From Earth to the Solar System (FETTSS) will be an online collection of images that can be freely downloaded and exhibited by organizations worldwide in...
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Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
Feb 25, 2011 10:17 pm
Hi, We just updated our website with a case history showing use of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LOLA data to generate realistic/ accurate terrain of the...
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Werner Benger
werner@...
Mar 16, 2011 4:48 pm
... Paper submission by: April 30, 2011 Date: March 14, 2011 ... Dear friend, this is just to remind you know that the GraVisMa 2011 workshop will be held in...
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marklnp
Mar 18, 2011 7:28 pm
Hi to all on the astro-viz list. I thought you'd like to see/hear a project I just completed. There's some real astro stuff choreographed to some nice space...
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Jonathan Fay
jfay@...
May 4, 2011 9:02 pm
We are happy to invite you all to a workshop on data visualization that will be jointly hosted by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research on the...
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Andrew Connolly
ajc@...
May 5, 2011 5:08 pm
We are happy to announce that registration is now open for astroviz 2011. Please go to http://ssg.astro.washington.edu/astroviz.shtml And click on the...
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Frank Summers
fjsummers
May 9, 2011 1:30 pm
Our deputy director here at STScI (aka former astronaut John Grunsfeld) went to see "Thor" at the theater over the weekend. He said that after the end credits,...
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Jonathan Fay
jfay@...
May 9, 2011 4:05 pm
They look cool. Scientific, I don't know, but they have a great combination of dust and starlight, and even though I saw it in 2d, the 3d elements of the...
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Robert Hurt
rhurt_spitzer
May 9, 2011 9:15 pm
Frank, It's a pretty spectacular sequence, and is one of the few in the film that was clearly rendered stereoscopically for the 3D version of the film (which...
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Tom Casey
tomwarrencasey
May 9, 2011 9:25 pm
Here's a list of all the shops who did effects scenes... always a lot of studios doing work on any single film nowadays... doesn't say anything specific about...
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Ernie Wright
etwrightiii
May 10, 2011 5:21 am
... Buf, apparently. http://www.awn.com/articles/visual-effects/raising-vfx-hammer-thor (see page 3) - Ernie...
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Frank Summers
fjsummers
May 10, 2011 7:32 pm
From the article: "Buf did many of these blasts into space [Luma created others using voxel rendering techniques and complex lighting rigs inside funnels],...
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Tiffany Borders
astrotiffrently
May 11, 2011 5:17 pm
NPR did a piece on this titled "Thor Blends Myth and Science". Check it out: ...
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Tom Hooten
hootenjt
May 16, 2011 5:23 pm
FYI...in case anyone knows someone interested in this position. Please share. ============================= ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Center for Earth & Space...
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April Hobart
ahobart_cxc
May 16, 2011 9:18 pm
Hi, I'm writing to find out who's going to be at AAS in Boston next week and if there is any interest in getting together informally to share "viz"-related...
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Jonathan Fay
jfay@...
May 16, 2011 9:28 pm
The draft agenda and list of participants registered to date is now on-line for AstroViz 2011 at UW June 4-5th If you have not registered please do and get...
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Frank Summers
fjsummers
May 18, 2011 4:48 pm
I'll be at AAS and am always looking to discuss astro-viz stuff. I have a talk Mon afternoon and will be at the STScI booth all week showing stereo 3D viz. ...
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tony
zacksmumdad
May 20, 2011 3:59 pm
Mayan Prophecies – "just in time for the apocalypse" The Burke Baker planetarium staff was charged by the Museum's president to create a planetarium show...
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Andrew Connolly
ajc@...
May 20, 2011 7:44 pm
Dear All For those of you coming to AstroViz 2011 I would like to encourage you to register as soon as possible (and send me your titles and abstracts for the...
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Robert Hurt
rhurt_spitzer
May 24, 2011 1:56 am
You know, I saw Thor in 3D again and was again really blown away by that closing sequence. The volumetrics are phenomenally well done, and they even show HII...
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Andrew Connolly
ajc@...
May 27, 2011 6:01 am
Dear All For those of you coming to AstroViz 2011, Friday is the last day that registration will be open (we will be working out the workshop diner and lunches...
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Andrew Connolly
ajc@...
Jun 2, 2011 1:07 am
Dear All We have the agenda for Astro-Viz 2011 - thanks for all of your contributions. A text version is appended below and the agenda will be going live on...
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kimberlykowal
Oct 27, 2011 10:32 am
The NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge is open to public votes this year. Voters need to register, but take a look at some of the...
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Alex Griswold
agriswold@...
Oct 27, 2011 2:36 pm
Kim, Nice job!!! Get's my vote. Alex...
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Jonathan Fay
jfay@...
Nov 7, 2011 6:24 pm
Is anyone planning a Astro-Viz event or get-together at the Winter AAS meeting in Austin? Past AAS events have had standing room only so I know there is...
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Robert Hurt
rhurt_spitzer
Nov 9, 2011 10:35 pm
I would like to give everyone a heads-up that we will be setting up a splinter group meeting at the Austin AAS, probably on Wednesday, on Astronomy...
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Frank Summers
fjsummers
Nov 17, 2011 2:26 pm
I will be at AAS Austin in January. We will be showing stereo 3D viz in the STScI booth, but we did not organize a special session. If AAS has BOF...
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Kimberly Kowal Arcand
kimberlykowal
Nov 17, 2011 4:58 pm
Hi Frank, I won't be at Austin, but other Chandra folks will (Joe DePasquale, Megan Watzke). A BoF would be useful, I'm sure. For the Alaska AAS, I...
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kimberlykowal
Feb 22, 2012 1:26 pm
Hi everyone, We're taking a quick poll to see who is attending the AAS in Alaska this June. For those attending, is there any interest in having an informal...
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Randy Landsberg
chiluddite
Jun 7, 2012 2:57 pm
Dear Astro-Viz People, We are pleased to announce: Dark Matters: A Cosmology Short Course for Museum & Planetarium Staff Dates: September 26-28, 2012 ...
